The continuing saga of my dead mom and her still-accumulating posessions

Aug 11, 2011 11:53

Mount Holyoke gave her an award at graduation. It arrived yesterday, after many postal and communications hangups. ( Photos: The Helen Warren Smith Award for Leadership )

mah issues - let me show you them, owning things, mom, absurd, grief

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woodspider August 11 2011, 16:00:50 UTC
we should have an annual Andrea K. Grahn Useless Shit Award. people from all around the country gather to show off their useless junk. rules state that the junk cannot be worth more than $25, but will be judged on its ratio of purpose-to-presentation. the prize goes to the thing that best rides that line between too-neat-to-throw-out but still utterly pointless.

the winner gets a tiny pewter bowl*

*the bowl itself cannot be entered into the competition, but any previous winners who have discarded their bowl are automatically disqualified from future competitions

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woodspider August 11 2011, 16:03:11 UTC
sigh. one of the reasons I miss ande is that, had I posted that a year ago, there would have been a very real chance that she'd have actually set it up.

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madmoisellestar August 11 2011, 16:58:19 UTC
Yes. And then kept all the entries.

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thirdbase August 11 2011, 17:43:47 UTC
Please send most of it back, should my husband decide to enter everything I own into this competition.

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whimmydiddle August 11 2011, 16:11:39 UTC
We have a bowl where we keep all of our keys. Another bowl for twist ties. Another for the little sauce packets you get with every order of Chinese take-out. I used to keep my bling in a bowl when I wasn't wearing it until the cats decided it was a bowl of toys, so now I keep that in a little glass bowl with a lid. In fact, all the aforementioned bowls have had to be protected from the cats, but they are serving a function. Any chance you could find this bowl a reason to exist, however trivial?

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madmoisellestar August 11 2011, 17:01:03 UTC
Tiny punch service is totally a reason to exist.

(good suggestions - thanks)

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whimmydiddle August 11 2011, 17:07:36 UTC
Oh, sorry. I thought you were kidding about tiny punch.

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starfyrone August 11 2011, 18:38:57 UTC
Irreverently noting that is some serious "pack-rat" mojo,
to be able to continue to collect things after ones demise.

Powerful woman.

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